After having accompanied his countryman Olegário Benquerença in several UEFA Champions League as additional assistant referee, he refereed matches at 2012–13 UEFA Europa League. Furthermore, he was appointed by the European football governing body to take charge of the Under-21 Championship Play-Off between Italy and Sweden.

He was in U20 World Cup in New Zealand in 2015 and refereed the quarter final USA vs Serbia. He was also in Serbia in U17 Euro and refereeing the semi final in 2011.

Artur de Oliveira Santos, was a Portuguese journalist and local politician, mayor of Ourém, in which the locality of Fátima was located, during the time of the apparitions of Our Lady of Fátima to three young shepherd children in 1917.